Problem 489. Bang Bang in Bangalore
Imagine a strange language disorder, Bangolangosis, has developed among trigonometricians of Bangalore, India, when calculating angles of triangles wrong and banging head in frustration.
The most obvious symptom: the affected individuals say "bang" for "bang-bang" and vice versa.
Example
The following sample should help understanding their problem more clearly. A native utterance by an affected person:
'Bang Raja-bang#@om uttam%$# bang-bang swamy&^%$'
The corrected version should actually be:
'Bang-bang Raja-bang#@om uttam%$# bang swamy&^%$'.
Please correct the given string accordingly.
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The test suite has been enhanced.
The creator of this problem might have indeed banged his head, which has affected his ability to think properly. I wish such stupid and meaningless problems stop showing up on Cody.
I admit that the time I'll spend on correcting the text of sufferers of Bangolangosis is small, but what I learned about regexprep from solving this problem will surely help me in other applications.
I disagree with Jafar's assessment: I thought this was a pretty funny problem.
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